The "Butterfly's Whisper" Blog

Welcome to my blog. I hope by sharing my own misophonia experiences, others who are frustrated with misophonia sensitivities will discover that they're not alone. I also hope that people who may not have misophonia will gain some insight about what it's like to have this condition. Please feel free to post any comments or use the "Contact Us" page if you have any questions/comments you don't want to post online.

This is just too weird... This morning, computer gremlins struck and decided to mess up my laptop's sound system in such a way that even though my earbuds were plugged into the machine like usual, the sound came through the speakers. I tried to mute the speakers but it muted the earbuds too. The sound controls also looked different than they had been over the past year and a half that I've had the computer. I was so frustrated to not have my favorite misophonia coping tool functioning...What's weirder is that as I typed the above paragraph, I decided to stop and see if I unmuted the speakers, would the sound also play through the earbuds. When I went to unmute the sound, I noticed that my controls were back to their old look. Not only that, but my earbuds are working again.I swear... I think my computer is playing a mean April Fool's joke on me. (Given that I'm a geek who spent the previous six years in my old firm doing I/T work, it wouldn't surprise me if I had computer gremlins to annoy me on April Fool's Day!) %-)

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Emlyn Altman has been suffering with misophonia for over 30 years, even though she only found out about the actual medical condition much more recently. As frustrating as the condition has been over the years, her heightened sensitivities across all the senses considerably influenced her talents within the visual fine arts (particularly sculpture), music (singing, piano, and many other instruments), writing, and culinary backgrounds, as well as professional achievements as an architectural lighting designer. Her goal in developing this website is to promote more awareness about misophonia and help other sufferers as well.